Engines of Our Ingenuity

Episode: 1488 John, Washington, & Emily Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge.  Today, a famil... more

Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris.  Today, necessity, i... more

Episode: 1487 Teaching the American public to use the telephone.  Today, would you buy the... more

Episode: 2545 Game Maker Milton Bradley.  Today, a game maker.

Episode: 2617 Facebook, social networking website, or new medium?  Today, Facebooking.

Episode: 2829 Cesare Lombroso and his Museum.  Today, a head in a jar.

Episode: 1485 Ship of gold in the Deep Blue Sea: an impossible treasure recovery.  Today, ... more

Episode: 1484 Georg Cantor, the man who counted beyond infinity.  Today, we wonder about c... more

Episode: 1483 In which J. Willard Gibbs pictures gear teeth.  Today, a glimpse into the mi... more

Episode: 1481 A revealing view of photography's early days.  Today, where was photography ... more

Episode: 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design.  Today, a grid for the ages.

Episode: 3346 In which Mary Proctor uses myth to help children understand reality.  Today,... more

Episode: 3345 In which I learn that an old book is not about tachometry but tacheometry in... more

Episode: 3342 Bernardo Zamagna designs a lighter-than-air ship that physics could not quit... more

Episode: 1480 Streamlining and the American public.  Today, we talk about streamlining.

Episode: 1479 The riddle of more grandparents than people.  Today, you and I are kin.

Episode: 1478 A sneak preview of the Statue of Liberty.  Today, a sneak preview of the Sta... more

Episode: 2538 Engineering Cheese Through the Millenia.  Today, say "cheese."

Episode: 3343  Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron and the quest to design machines that can lea... more

Episode: 3344 That Rare Find, Rachel Ruysch.  Today, we talk diversity in art and nature.